From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs needs a modern bug tracker Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:26:43 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080105212643.GX30869@thyrsus.com> References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <20080105052007.GA27075@thyrsus.com> <20080105111720.GA3014@muc.de> <20080105145743.GH30869@thyrsus.com> <86prwg9h9m.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199568423 6175 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 21:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alan Mackenzie To: Chris Ball Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 22:27:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBGXs-0005Eh-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:27:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBGXT-0001sM-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:26:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBGXP-0001rz-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBGXM-0001rL-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBGXM-0001rI-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBGXJ-0007Ez-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:26:35 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 0E6CE41C316; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:26:43 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86prwg9h9m.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86234 Archived-At: Chris Ball : > Just for the record, DVCS-based bug databases *do* exist, and allow the > offline working we're looking for while also allowing a user-friendly > web-based interface. The two interfaces can exist without friction -- > it's a distributed VCS, and the web interface becomes just one more > repository performing push and pull operations on the master database. > > One such bugtracker is "Bugs Everywhere": > > http://www.panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/index.html > > I think it's appealing to have a checkout of the bug database available > alongside a source code checkout. Bugs Everywhere is not finished yet, > but can use many different VCS backends including arch, bzr and hg. > I have a small patch to add GIT support to it, too. This sounds interesting. How close would you say it is to production status? -- Eric S. Raymond